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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by vnj23iwe on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:59PM (#16581029)
Fire everyone at Agency A for shitty behavior. Then turn around and realize everyone at Agency B is cooking the books, so fire them. And so on.

Then turn around and realize basically every large institution humans have ever built relies on shady, selfish, behavior and stop caring about reforming individuals since thousands of years of policing have done jack and squat to remove the behavior from the species.

Seriously, this forum is the worst for overlooking relevant variables (human biology and contemporary culture as a whole) for their trite commentary, usually rooted in nothing more than culturally acceptable bullet points.

Hundreds of years of the same sort of thinking. Still happens.

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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by freelunch on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:27AM (#16582339)
So why does Tokyo’s system work so much better? They’re humans too, but apparently their transit system works much better.
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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by lmm on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:04AM (#16583315)
I don't know, but Japanese companies are notorious for never firing people, so it's very unlikely to be because they "fired everyone" as DiabloD3 was suggesting.
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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by Symmetry on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @07:57AM (#16584076)
They're privatized.
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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:41AM (#16582812)
It seems like you're saying "it's impossible to achieve perfection, therefore you should never even try to improve."
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Re:‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ by avinium on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @10:27PM (#16581797)
Not saying I disagree with you - but assuming what you say is true, what would you propose?
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